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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hester fling next to the brook?
(a) Her scarlet letter.
(b) Dimmesdale's Bible.
(c) Her bonnet.
(d) Chillingworth's herbs.

2. When Dimmesdale exclaims, "O Thou to whom I dare not life mine eyes," whom is he addressing?
(a) Hester.
(b) God.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Wilson.

3. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's work.
(b) Hester's love life.
(c) Hester's guilt.
(d) Hester's past.

4. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Needle.
(b) Wit's End.
(c) Bedside.
(d) Confession.

5. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Hibbins.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 18?

2. With what kind of natural objects has Pearl decorated herself in Chapter 18?

3. According to the narrator, which of the following has NOT been one of Hester's "teachers"?

4. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"

5. Where was Hester's "happy infancy and stainless maidenhood?"

(see the answer key)

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